The MEDEA Awards competition is all about recognising, encouraging and rewarding excellence and creativity in media in education. MEDEA aims to highlight the educational environments that reflect the media-rich world in which our learners live nowadays.
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In this issue you can read about possible educational uses of iPads, our French NCP: Université Nancy 2’s Vidéoscop and the film archiving project 'European Film Gateway'. Among the interesting news items, you will find an update on the agenda for the Media & Learning Conference 2010 and several calls for educational filmmakers in specific sectors and other relevant news.
Deborah Arnold and Sally Reynolds gave a presentation about MEDEA entitled "Sharing Experiences from the MEDEA Awards" during the recent EDEN conference held in Valencia from 9-12 June. The presentation provided background information to the MEDEA awards and showed several of the winning entries. It also provided a description of the types of media in popular use in the learning context, and involved the audience in a discussion about what they considered effective educational media.
This month's issue highlights a forum on Video and Active Citizenship, a new special interest group on video in higher education, a teachers' resource on the topic of cyberbullying, a report on the level of interest in educational video during the Global Learn conference Conference in Malaysia, an insight into Adobe's new eLearning Suite and a feature article on multimedia literacy project INgeBEELD, a MEDEA 2009 Finalist. You can read the entire newsletter for more interesting articles on relevant organisations, events and competitions such as the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards and the ALT/Epigeum Award.
